Even in the blazing heat, “9 to 5” crooner Dolly Parton will still wear her long sleeves, and some in the industry began to share stories that she was covering up a plethora of tattoos with her sleeves. During a 1996 appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” the host caught a glimpse of one of the tattoos on her arm, forcing her to admit to at least one. By 2012, she was denying she had any tattoos on her chest, per People, but after years of scrutiny, she couldn’t deny it any longer. In 2016, the “Jolene” icon admitted during an appearance on “Larry King Now” that yes, she has tattoos on her arms.
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“I don’t really like to make a big to-do of [the tattoos] because people make such a big damn deal over every little thing,” she told Vanity Fair, and when speaking with Larry King, she warned she wasn’t trying to be “a biker chick or anything” by getting inked. In 2020, she insisted to People that her body art was “tasteful. I’m not a tattoo girl.” So, why is Tennessee’s most famous daughter getting inked in the first place? It turns out it all comes down to a skin condition.
